Hello and welcome to Slate's Audio Book Club.

I'm Dale Wilman.

Today, our book club members are discussing David Foster Wallace's Infinite Chest.

To introduce our conversation, here's Katie Roofy.

Hi, this is Katie Royphy for Slate's Audio Book Club.

I'm here today with Troy Patterson, Slate's television critic and Jim Surwecky, a staff

writer for The New Yorker.

And today we're going to do our book club on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

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Yeah, I think it's great.

I think his nonfiction writing is really amazing.

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Should we get on with things now?

Yes, I think so. Today we're here to finally talk about David Foster Wallace's infinite jest.

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